Data Analyst

Alken-Maes has a centralized team for Business Intelligence (BI). This team’s primary responsibility is to accelerate insights collection, creation & delivery to internal stakeholders. In this team, Business & Data Analysts work closely together. This allows us to develop fit-for-purpose solutions in a consistent manner.

What started as volume vs. market tracking, has grown into a broader mission: helping our business make better decisions, faster. The goal? Expand our impact and bring data magic to more corners of Alken-Maes — while learning from other HEINEKEN OpCos along the way.

YOUR JOB

As a Data Analyst, you help shape our ambition to become a truly data-driven company. You’re a key business partner for Sales & Marketing.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Ensure our Power BI reports run smoothly: reliable, clear, fast, and insightful.
• Constantly improve our reporting landscape — think smarter data sources, better visualisations, sharper insights.
• Coach colleagues to explore data on their own, turning dashboards into daily habits.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

1.Make data a mindset:    

• Use data to support, challenge and inspire our business stakeholders with actionable information and insights about our (commercial) tactics.
• Support campaigns and commercial initiatives by uncovering what works — and what doesn’t — through concrete numbers and clear insights.
• Inspire teams with what’s possible: proactively share new tools, views, or data sources that could unlock smarter ways of working.
• Help translate consumer behaviour and commercial performance into actionable plans that grow our brands in Off-Trade (supermarkets) and On-Trade (bars, restaurants, festivals).

2. Maintain existing reporting landscape & run several data-driven projects to deliver actionable insights based on key business questions

• Participate to the development of our data-driven learning agenda.
• Engage a fruitful and effective collaboration with Global Analytics team to be on top of Global models deployment.
• Maintain and improve recurring reporting in Power BI — always looking for ways to make it cleaner, faster, and more relevant.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to deeply understand their needs and turn them into dashboards that actually help them work better.
• Turn results of analytics to actionable insights.
• Help business users get more confident in using dashboards, tools and insights independently.

YOUR PROFILE

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Analytics, Marketing or a related field.
• You bring 2–4 years of professional experience, with at least 2 years hands-on in a data analyst or BI-related role.
• You’re technically skilled:

• SQL
• Visualization Tools : Power BI preferred, others acceptable.
• Microsoft Office: Excel & Powerpoint
• Advanced analytics is a plus

• Your experience has taught you how to:

• Manage a reporting landscape: ensure quality, work on continuous improvement for recurring reporting, convert business requirements into tangible reports/dashboards.
• Connect & collaborate with stakeholders: it’s the responsibility of people that speak ‘data’ to communicate this simply to business stakeholders.
• Take ownership of projects: own the delivery of projects.

• You are a bright analytical thinker and problem solver with eye for detail.
• You’re a natural communicator: you can explain complex data to non-technical audiences with ease and confidence.
• You take ownership of your work — you’re someone who gets things moving and delivers.
• You are flexible in changing environments.
• You have a good knowledge of English or Dutch.
• Most of all: you’re curious, eager to learn and ready to grow — just like us.

What's in it for you?  

• Trust, challenge and support from experienced managers and professionals who know how to develop people, teams and take organizations to the next level.
• We are the market challenger. This means we are a dynamic, local organization; with the benefits of belonging to the larger, international HEINEKEN family.
• Awesome colleagues who enjoy a refreshing Cristal or Desperados 0% after work.
• The opportunity to make your mark and take the initiative. (Which, according to our colleagues, is one of the greatest advantages of working at Alken-Maes).
• A coaching environment, giving you an extraordinary learning opportunity.
• And of course, a competitive package and other nice conditions.

• Meal vouchers
• Hospitalisation plan
• Group insurance
• 33 leave days
• Mobility options